Part of OctPoWriMo prompt today talks about tortured in the context of love, where, “Torture is defined as ‘the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something, or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain.’ ” One of the suggested…
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Poetry Day 11 — Arthur
image link — note this is Arthur Today’s OctPoWriMo’s prompt is about falling through the cracks. My definition of falling through the cracks means to be overlooked or forgotten. Today’s suggested cascade form is inspired by when I went and helped my son and his wife volunteer at a cat shelter a few weeks back. …
Poetry Day 10 — Drug of Choice
Drip drip drip from my heart throbbing pulsing coursing through from main arteries to capillaries each cell saturated mitochondria blazing as the walls are breached with the elixir of you.
Day 9 — Love Bird
image link The poetry form, Etheree, consists of 10 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 syllables. Etheree can also be reversed and written 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Get creative and write an Etheree with more than one verse, but follow suit with an…
Day 8 — Possession of Illusion
image link Today’s prompt for OctWriPoMo included: Falling in love can feel like falling into madness. “Does he really love me or is it just lust?” Second guessing everything until you feel like you are going mad. Write into your moments of madness whether it had to do with love or something you became obsessed…
Day 7 –Go To Hell
Dear Every Member of The System Who Didn’t Believe a Victim and/or Failed to Hold Accountable a Perpetration of Sexual Assault Upon Another: Person/System Who Didn’t Believe A Victim Failed to Hold Accountable a Perpetration. * Your reasons are Legion. One extreme to another Rationalized or justified Callous disregard for * —->A HUMAN BEING<—- *…
Day 6 — Look Up
image link The form is a rondeau. A Rondeau is a French form, 15 lines long, consisting of three stanzas: a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet with a rhyme scheme as follows: aabba aabR aabbaR. Lines 9 and 15 are short – a refrain (R) consisting of a phrase taken from line one. The…
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